There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

My love and anger are in deep conversation these days, teaching and learning from one another. I'm doing my best to stay open to all of it.I’m curious to see what love does with all my anger.

Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people.

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.

I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8.